The Conductor

"The Conductor" (Linnupüüdja, 1988) is a short animated film you can watch online on iFILM. In seven wordless minutes, a free living bird turns into a wooden one and joins a choir of wooden birds.

Estonian director Aarne Ahi tells the whole parable through images alone — about trading freedom for a tidy place in the chorus, and what is left of a voice once the life drains out of it. A small, sharp piece for fans of auteur Baltic animation from the 1980s. Stream "The Conductor" online on iFILM.